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[LilacTree]

"If you like people, they will like you."

My mom was put in a foster home.  The foster mother took her out of school after the 8th grade to clean the house and take care of the younger children.

Little did she know my mom was genius, who in her lifetime must have read a thousand books.  As a result, she pronounced many words wrong.  However, she was way ahead of the game about women's rights, bigotry, etc.

Another thing she used to say . . . "someday we'll all be coffee brown."

It wasn't so much what she said, it was how she raised us.

[SusieQ_2]

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@Burnsite wrote:

Nothing I say, my mother was one of a kind. 

When I was having trouble writing a paper in high-school, "The world is so big, and the point of a pencil is so small."

On her last birthday, "I am just beginning to like myself, and now I have to die."

Miss her every day.  I look a little like her, but she was much prettier.  I am fairly self-aware, but she was the most grounded person I have ever known.  It's how she raised six kids.

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@Burnsite, What a beautiful post.

I feel the same way about my own mom, I miss her every day. I hope that many things I say sound like her. That would be a true blessing.

[nun ya]

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@just bee wrote:

Holy Hannah!

H_ll's bells!

Dollars to donuts...

Useless as a t_t on a duck!

If Hitler had the lead she/he has in her/his ___, he would have won the war!

You want to paint?  Why don't you start painting this house?  (I haven't said this, but I've sure been thinking it.)

Madonna mia!

Don't air your dirty laundry.

She's a prima donna.

Stata zeet!  (Not spelled this way, but sure sounds like it.)

Gabbadost!

Holy criminenelli!  (I think that was her Italian version of "criminy.")

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hahaha sounds like my Mom. I can't repeat them here. 

[fourpaws56]

I'll have another shot

[Big Sister]

She would say, "If you don't go to church with us, you will NOT go out the rest of the day."

[Catiele]

Look down you might find money.

If you find a penny only pick it up if the face is up or it would be bad luck.

Don't step on cracks it's bad luck.

Time for bed you need your beauty sleep. I had sons!

[mistriTsquirrel]

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@Big Sister wrote:

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@mistriTsquirrel wrote:

It's not what I say, it's when I laugh that I sound like her.

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Oh, how nice.  I bet your mom is laughing right along with you.

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@Big Sister

Well...not so much.  My mother is still living, and she and I don't get along.

[sophiamarie]

I think  I said this before but my mother would say (if you looked disheveled)

  "you look like the wreck of the Hesperus"

Then, if something was really old, she would say "it's from the year of the flood".......

Then, there's always the driving - when my dad was driving, she would slam her foot on the "imaginery brake" and yell out ""Full Stop, Joe"  and he would say "I got it Rosie".......

I do the same thing with my hubby.... Some things never die......